Favorite Quotes

[jbett98]

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."

Winston Churchill

 

[IronMonster]

How about a faorite poem?

• 
  Good Timber
  • 
    by Douglas Malloch
  The tree that never had to fight
  For sun and sky and air and light,
  But stood out in the open plain
  And always got its share of rain,
  Never became a forest king
  But lived and died a scrubby thing.
  
  The man who never had to toil
  To gain and farm his patch of soil,
  Who never had to win his share
  Of sun and sky and light and air,
  Never became a manly man
  But lived and died as he began.
  
  Good timber does not grow with ease:
  The stronger wind, the stronger trees;
  The further sky, the greater length;
  The more the storm, the more the strength.
  By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
  In trees and men good timbers grow.
  
  Where thickest lies the forest growth,
  We find the patriarchs of both.
  And they hold counsel with the stars
  Whose broken branches show the scars
  Of many winds and much of strife.
  This is the common law of life.
  

 

[Caveman Jim]

'An armed Society is a Polite Society". ???

 

[partsed]

Don't order a drink for the road, because the road is already laid out-Flip Wilson

 

[partsed]

'An armed Society is a Polite Society". ???

Robert A Heinlein

 

[Caveman Jim]

Robert A Heinlein

Thank you.

 

[Larrytpdx]

Democracy is when 2 wolves and a lamb vote for what to put on the dinner table; Liberty is when the lamb is well-armed.

 

[Alexx1401]

Democracy is when 2 wolves and a lamb vote for what to put on the dinner table; Liberty is when the lamb is well-armed.

I often see another version of that ending in "the armed lamb contesting the vote".

 

[jbett98]

 

[Stomper]

Animal Mother said it best:

Anyone who served with them knew that 60-gunners were a special breed of soldier... hot DAM, I REALLY miss my M60!! (sometimes)

 

[slimmer13]

Animal Mother sad it best:

Anyone who served with them knew that 60-gunners were a special breed of soldier... hot DAM, I REALLY miss my M60!! (sometimes)

A couple of my favorites from that movie.

Gunnery Sgt. Hartman: You climb like old people **** private pile!

Animal Mother: You'd better flush out your head, new guy. This isn't about freedom; this is a slaughter. If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is "poontang".

 

[IronMonster]

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

 

[partsed]

"Because the strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength and knows compassion"
Dr. Abraham Erskine to Steve Rogers-Capt. America The First Avenger

 

[Alexx1401]

"What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it"

Lazarus Long

(Heinlein)

 

[Stomper]

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

Never a truer statement!


God loves renaissance men!

 

[Alexx1401]

Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life take big bites. Moderation is for Monks".

Lazarus Long

(Heinlein)

 

[slimmer13]

Some General Mattis:

"I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years"

"You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad."

"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you **** with me, I'll kill you all"

"Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact."

 

[teflon6string]

If guns cause crime, all of mine must be defective.
Ted Nugent

 

[Certaindeaf]

How about a faorite poem?

• 
  Good Timber
  • 
    by Douglas Malloch
  The tree that never had to fight
  For sun and sky and air and light,
  But stood out in the open plain
  And always got its share of rain,
  Never became a forest king
  But lived and died a scrubby thing.
  
  The man who never had to toil
  To gain and farm his patch of soil,
  Who never had to win his share
  Of sun and sky and light and air,
  Never became a manly man
  But lived and died as he began.
  
  Good timber does not grow with ease:
  The stronger wind, the stronger trees;
  The further sky, the greater length;
  The more the storm, the more the strength.
  By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
  In trees and men good timbers grow.
  
  Where thickest lies the forest growth,
  We find the patriarchs of both.
  And they hold counsel with the stars
  Whose broken branches show the scars
  Of many winds and much of strife.
  This is the common law of life.

"Too long didn't read.".



















Just kidding!

 

[partsed]

"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical but it is often true"
Spock